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The monument that has Muscovites staring down the barrel
A statue of the inventor of the Kalashnikov assault rifle has been erected in Moscow
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
A Twitter tussle between two London museums, gallery doppelgangers, and Howard Hodgkin’s taste in television
Why the Museum of London is going down the drain
A vast ‘fatberg’ is obstructing the sewers of East London – and the Museum of London wants to get hold of a piece
The beauty of baggage reclaim
The Rijksmueum has reopened its gallery at Schipol airport – and there’s a special treat in the baggage hall to mark the occasion
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
David Hockney and Clement Greenberg’s daughter, Ernest Hemingway’s cats, and DIY discussions at Tate Britain
The artists buttering up Justin Trudeau
Canada’s prime minister has been immortalised in butter, while a Kiwi artist has chosen a rather less tasteful medium for his political statuary
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
The latest tittle-tattle from the art and museum worlds
The wacky waxworks of Boston
A wax museum in Boston has been widely ridiculed – just look at their effigies of the Royal Family!
Ooh aah Museum Cantona!
The French footballer-cum-actor has his heart set on opening a museum in Sardinia
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Stefan Simchowitz at the movies, silly-season sightings of Jeff Koons, and billboards to beguile Banksy
Please keep off the art…
Visitors get too close to an Yves Klein, and an 800-year-old sarcophagus is the scene of a strange photo shoot
Leonardo DiCaprio, meet Leonardo da Vinci…
Leonardo DiCaprio was named after the Renaissance polymath – and is now set to play him
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Speech recognition software needs an update in Hull, Paris Hilton picks up a paintbrush, how heavy are Damien Hirst’s bronzes, and an artist objects to ‘Broadchurch’
Studying art history can make you famous – honest!
Studying art history can turn you into an art historian. Or it can make you famous, it turns out.
Julian Assange, master of the (dark) arts
What we learnt about Julian Assange and art from his profile in the New Yorker
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Jim Carrey’s paintings fail to draw a smile; Giles Coren has a moment of ecstasy in Sotheby’s restaurant; and the rest of last week’s arty tittle-tattle
An art rogue at Vogue
John Currin seems to have come over all coy in his portrait of Jennifer Lawrence for Vogue
Arty cats and dogs have their day on Twitter
International Cat Day clashes with Dogs in Paintings Day on Twitter. Which has really set the cat among the pigeons…
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Tittle-tattle and curiosities from the art and museum worlds
Hollywood! Brooklyn! Basildon!
Brooklyn beware! Artist Susanna Briselli is trying to get a huge sign erected
How to get your art-history fix at the Edinburgh Fringe
There are plenty of (sort of) art-historical turns at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Giacometti at the movies, Jack Vettriano at the pub, and the rest of last week’s arty tittle-tattle
The museum that’s telling porkies to its visitors
The Museum of Lies brought weird and wonderful – but utterly spurious – exhibits to London
The curious case of Microsoft Paint
Microsoft has reversed its decision to discontinue MS Paint, the programme that turned all of us into (very bad) Picassos
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